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South Africa director of rugby Rassie Erasmus to face misconduct hearing
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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1052055" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>It's not about rule breaking, it's about conduct. Although broadly speaking it would fall under bringing the game into disrepute.</p><p></p><p>Ok then, what would you change? Have refs sit down and explain every single bloody decision they made in a game someone had a gripe with? I don't want whinging, I want to hear how you think it can be fixed. I rant about the refs plenty of times myself and have called into question their impartiality but I'm not a coach and nor would I expect any coach in an official capacity to be acting like me on a forum after having a few. If that's where we want to set the bar for acceptable behaviour then we may as well say there no longer are standards and may as well allow players and coaches to call refs corrupt before each game. If this is allowed to pass then we will have coaches in public dissecting every little thing that didn't quite go their way and it will kill the game, not improve it.</p><p></p><p>As I said, look at footage from the 70's etc. Pretty much every single ruck has illegal play. High tackles are all over the place, knock ons and forward passes galore. The standard of refereeing now is better than it has ever been but we have more ability to scrutinise now than ever. Do you want refs to micro-analyse every decision? It's a bloody no win scenario. When refs take ages analysing decisions or stopping the game for infringements then people complain about how it is killing the flow of the game but when they try to play on those same people complain that decisions didn't go their way. Fine, as fans we do that but the bloody coaches should not be doing it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1052055, member: 56232"] It's not about rule breaking, it's about conduct. Although broadly speaking it would fall under bringing the game into disrepute. Ok then, what would you change? Have refs sit down and explain every single bloody decision they made in a game someone had a gripe with? I don't want whinging, I want to hear how you think it can be fixed. I rant about the refs plenty of times myself and have called into question their impartiality but I'm not a coach and nor would I expect any coach in an official capacity to be acting like me on a forum after having a few. If that's where we want to set the bar for acceptable behaviour then we may as well say there no longer are standards and may as well allow players and coaches to call refs corrupt before each game. If this is allowed to pass then we will have coaches in public dissecting every little thing that didn't quite go their way and it will kill the game, not improve it. As I said, look at footage from the 70's etc. Pretty much every single ruck has illegal play. High tackles are all over the place, knock ons and forward passes galore. The standard of refereeing now is better than it has ever been but we have more ability to scrutinise now than ever. Do you want refs to micro-analyse every decision? It's a bloody no win scenario. When refs take ages analysing decisions or stopping the game for infringements then people complain about how it is killing the flow of the game but when they try to play on those same people complain that decisions didn't go their way. Fine, as fans we do that but the bloody coaches should not be doing it. [/QUOTE]
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